Tale of a Female Foetus
It depicts the cruelty of our society that takes girls to be a burden on it materially and culturally as well.
Dr Joylal Das
Dr. Joylal Das is an Assistant Professor in English at Alipurduar University, West Bengal. He has done his doctoral thesis on Dalit writings from West Bengal. His area of interest covers Dalit literature, Indian writings in English and in English translation, local historiography, and literature and culture from margin. Besides academic works, he writes poems and short stories on marginal people, marginal culture, marginal society etc. both in English and Bengali.
He has published his Bengali book of poems, Britter Baire Theke. He has also authored a critical volume entitled Few Leaves from Tagorean Tree: (Re) reading of Tagore’s Selected Poems.